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thousand Noun pl -sands or -sand 1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one hundred 2. a numeral, 1000 or 103, representing this number 3. a very large but unspecified number: thousands of bees swarmed out of the hive 4. something representing or consisting of 1000 units Adjective amounting to a thousand: a thousand members [Old English thūsend] thousandth adjn
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Translationsthousands of → miles de one thousand → mille; thousands of → des milliers de two thousand → zweitausend; thousands of → Tausende von one thousand → mille; thousands of → migliaia di |
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Writing out on note paper in his minute hand all that he owed, he added up the amount and found that his debts amounted to seventeen thousand and some odd hundreds, which he left out for the sake of clearness. A filled straight belonging to French Louis gave him a pot of five thousand against two sets of threes held by Campbell and Kearns. A weight of four thousand pounds is represented by a displacement of the air amounting to forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven cubic feet; or, in other words, forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven cubic feet of air weigh about four thousand pounds. |
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